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A seminar series presented by the Research Methods Core in collaboration with departments and divisions at iTHRIV institutions. Seminars are presented by experts in their field, and cover timely topics in the domain of research methods: biostatistics, epidemiology, research design, ethics, and regulatory knowledge. Seminars are free for attendees and are presented virtually during the pandemic. You must register in advance to receive the Zoom link.

Upcoming Seminars:

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Past Seminars: links to recordings provided when available.

• Leveraging Implementation Science to improve health equity and reduce health disparities/1_bqskg6a0 "https://video.vt.edu/media/Justin+Moore+(Wake+Forest+University)/1_bqskg6a0") -- Justin Moore, PhD, Wake Forest University (December 2023)

• Community Participation: How the Human Rights Data Analysis Group works around the world- Megan Price, PhD, Human Rights Data Analysis Group (November 2023)

• Should we share data across DSMBs? If so, how should we do it securely? -- Tom Stewart, PhD, Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia

• Explainability and AI/ML Data Readiness in the NIH Bridge2AI Program - Methods and Approaches -- Timothy Clark, PhD, UVA Public Health Sciences and Data Science (April 2023)
• One-model-predicts-all No More: Training Specialized Models for Minority Patient Groups -- Daphne Yao, PhD , Virginia Tech department of Computer Science(March 2023)
• Estimating Sources of Air Pollution -- Jenna Krall, PhD, George Mason University department of Global and Community Health. (October 2022)

• Response to Structural Racism in Research --Jody D. Ciolino, PhD, Northwestern University department of Preventative Medicine -- Biostatistics. (December 2022)

• New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy -- Jonathan Petters, PhD, Assistant Director, Data Management and Curation Services, Virginia Tech. (September 2022)

• Reproducible Coding using R Markdown-- Marieke Jones, PhD (April 2022)

• Good Research Grows from Columns and Rows: Planting the Seeds of Success through Database Management-- Genevieve Lyons, MSPH UVA & Alicia Lozano, MS, VT (March 2022)

• Scientific Integrity & Statistical Considerations in Responsible Conduct of Research-- Melur (Ram) K. Ramasubramanian, PhD, UVA & Sarah Ratcliffe, PhD, UVA (February 2022)

• A Few of a Kind are Easy to Find: Beyond the Basics of Privacy with Statistical Disclosure Control--Jennifer H Van Mullekom, PhD and Frances McCarty, PhD (January 2022)
• Randomization Tests: The Forgotten Component of the Randomized Clinical Trial: -- William Rosenberger, PhD (December 2021)

• COVID-19 Modeling: A Geospatial Approach -- Shan Yu, PhD, University of Virginia department of Statistics (November 2021)

• Trees of Knowledge: Learning from the Fruits of the Random Forest -- Ian Crandell, PhD Virginia Tech, (October 2021) at 12 Noon

• COVID Data Science: Evaluating and Aggregating Emerging Knowledge in the Pandemic -- Jeffrey Morris, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Department of Statistics (September 2021)

• They Can See Clearly Now: Data Visualization - Jennifer Van Mullekom, PhD, Virginia Tech SAIG (May 2021)

• Achieving Balance: Matching and Weighting in Observational Data - Ian Crandell, PhD, Virginia Tech CBHDS (April 2021)

• Tensor Data Learning in Multimodality Imaging Analysis -- Xiwei Tang, PhD, UVA Statistics (February 2021)

• The Bigger Picture: Mediation and Moderation Analysis - Kevin McKee, PhD, Virginia Tech (November 2020)

• Sources of Bias - Jiayang Sun, PhD, GMU Statistics (December 2020)

• Differential Impact of Social Distancing on COVID-19 Spread in the US - Wen You, PhD, UVA Public Health Sciences (August 2020)

• Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Tianxi Li, PhD, UVA Statistics (September 2020)

• Bayesian Fundamentals with Applications in Healthcare, Leanna House, PhD, Virginia Tech Statistics (May 2020)

• Statistical Considerations for Responsible Conduct of Research, Sarah Ratcliffe, PhD, UVA Public Health Sciences (March 2020)

• Intro to Competing Risks Analysis, Guofen Yan, PhD, UVA Public Health Sciences (February 2020)

• Biostatistics 101: Analysis Planning, Alex Hanlon, PhD, Virginia Tech CBHDS (January 2020)

• A Human-Centered Approach to Communicating Statistics, Regina Nuzzo, PhD, American Statistical Association (December 2019)

• An Introduction to Meta-Analysis, Sally Morton, PhD, Virginia Tech Statistics (November 2019)

• Statisticians and the Evolution of the Randomized Clinical Trial, Susan Ellenberg, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Biostatistics and Epidemiology (October 2019)

• Policies to Promote the Abandonment of Ineffective Treatment, David Howard, PhD, Emory University (September 2019)